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Monday traffic: Congestion starting to loosen on the system

A flurry of crashes on the system strangled traffic on several major routes, but at 8:30 a.m., most have cleared allowing traffic to recover.

By Tim Harlow

July 16, 2018 at 1:37PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

No speed records are being set on westbound I-494 between Cedar Avenue and Hwy. 100. Eastbound I-494 is slow going from Hwy. 169 over to Portland Avenue in Bloomington. Westbound Crosstown is tight from Cedar Avenue over to I-35W.

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Tim Harlow

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Tim Harlow covers traffic and transportation issues in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, and likes to get out of the office, even during rush hour. He also covers the suburbs in northern Hennepin and all of Anoka counties, plus breaking news and weather.

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Eviction filings up in Minnesota amid ICE surge

FILE -- A rent deposit slot at an apartment complex in Tucker, Ga., on July 21, 2020. As an eviction crisis has seemed increasingly likely this summer, everyone in the housing market has made the same plea to Washington: Send money — lots of it — that would keep renters in their homes and landlords afloat. (Melissa Golden/The New York Times) ORG XMIT: XNYT58
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